Month: December 2011

7 years in to my teaching career I have come to the unfortunate realisation that I’m now too expensive to move schools unless I want to take on a management role. [1. Not something I have a burning desire to… Continue Reading →

One of the ideas I scribbled down at the start of the year for a project was infographics. Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as… Continue Reading →

As I mentioned the other day, I’d abandoned my feed reader to the marking mountain for a few weeks, so was forced to hit ‘mark all as read’ to real with the 1000+ posts waiting for me. But there’s a few blogs… Continue Reading →

One idea for a series of posts I had was looking at how I use specific pieces of technology in the classroom, so I’ll kick it off with this, and with some luck a few more might be forthcoming in… Continue Reading →

This is another post that’s been sitting in draft form for weeks. I started it after I demoed Twitter to my old PGCE tutor, and thought a post online where I could direct history teachers new to Twitter would be… Continue Reading →

Flicking through some links, I came across the ‘Five Minutes With…’ videos on the BBC website, including one with Simon Schamawho is one of my favourite ‘popularises of History’.Well worth a watch if you’ve got a spare 5 and a… Continue Reading →

This term has been nuts. Not other expression for it. With a review of marking policy at school the pressure to keep up to date with everything has meant most other things have been forced off the agenda. Blogging, Tweeting,… Continue Reading →